Category: interiors
Tara x
Tara Button and her website Buymeonce are a blast of fresh, spring air.
Tara’s concept is simple – our lives have been stuffed full of things we’re told we need that lets us down so she has been on a mission to track down the best quality and investment pieces that every house actually needs.
This resonates so much it almost hurts: I too am tired of this modern life that believes it can tell me who I am through the purchase of a skin cream, what I need: permanent upgrades and who I should be: spending lots of money, constantly implying that the real me isn’t good enough.
Just open your eyes to the insistent message of the season: Spring clean your wardrobes/house/family/life – it’s time to refresh!…The underlying, insidious message being that we will make you insecure to make you buy more.
(All pics Buymeonce)
Is it norm corm in the extreme? I don’t know. But what I do know is that we can’t spend our way to happiness and something needs to change. This seems a very good place to start.
Laters, Kate x
Easter Project x
So the big plan this Easter is to start putting Bella’s room renovation into action and our proposed make are floor-sofa cushions: How hard can it be??
Except the last time I took out my sewing machine, there was a definite smell of burning..
Wish us luck.
Laters, Kate x
Peek x
There’s an undeniable delight about being able to step behind the curtains and into the spaces of other people, particularly when theres more than one room. This is the New York townhouse of Monique Gibson, renowned interior designer, courtesy of Architectural Digest.
(All pics Architectural Digest)
Just look at this one makes me long for summer..
Laters, Kate x
Scales x
When’s a tile not a tile?
(All pics Fireclay tiles)
When it can think out of the box?
Laters, Kate x
Outside x
Small, brave signs of spring are appearing: delicate snowdrops, sturdy crocuses and longer days. Which is maybe why thoughts are turning to the outside and in particular window boxes: Such a simple way to mix lush colour with urban grime.
The decision of which colour to paint the exterior woodwork of the house is also edging ever closer: Soon the weather won’t be an excuse. Go dark?
Or go neutral?
Put the two decisions together and it’s an interesting conundrum: Which combination looks better zinc, black or terracotta for the window box against the neutral?
Or the grey?
Why is it so hard? Damn.
Laters, Kate x
Sliding doors x
Still dreaming of a log cabin….
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With it’s own unique style.
Laters, Kate x
Head Space x
What’s real?
I think I would like to live in a log cabin by water with honest furnishings and the simple things in life. But there’s always the nagging thought – does life just look greener on the other side? Are you taking for granted the bits of urban grime that really make your heart sing? Or is living in the big smoke an assumption we all buy into?
Money is an assumption. It now has no actual value other than the fact we all believe in it. Take this dress – except that’s an assumption too because it’s really a nightie. Are you prepared to accept that without questioning?
(All pics Toast)
These could all be multi-functional, year long investment buys – nightwear in the winter, day wear in the summer. The only barrier is what you’ve been told. Or not.
Laters, Kate x
Bella’s room x
There’s a promise I need to keep and that’s redecorating Bella’s room: Never an easy thing when they want identity and you’re spending the hard cash. So in the knowledge of generational divide and the spirit of finding the grey area she’s been pinning her inspiration.
(All pics Pinterest)
I don’t think I need to worry. Hashtag my girl is growing up. Fast.
Laters, Kate x
Maison Bentley Style 